{"id":11440,"date":"2013-08-30T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:17:46","slug":"quote-of-the-day-493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-493\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11159\" title=\"Foxwoods Milford entry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Foxwoods-Milford-entry-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/>\u201cIt certainly impacts my line of thinking in terms of what these licenses are worth.[<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Foxwoods<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">] needs to package the best deal possible and, right now, they\u2019re third in the list of three.\u201d &#8212; <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong>Milford<\/strong> Board of Selectman Chairman <strong>William Buckley<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milforddailynews.com\/news\/x1655330654\/Milford-casino-Foxwoods-last-in-line-to-sign-host-community-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">reacting to the eight-figure deals made<\/a> by <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> and <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> with <strong>Everett<\/strong> and <strong>Boston<\/strong>, respectively. Foxwoods&#8217; offer is for &#8220;initial payments of nearly $2 million, annual payments of about $2.8 million and a community development fund totaling $25 million. Meanwhile, Boston&#8217;s government is <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/local_coverage\/2013\/08\/pact_allows_broad_use_of_casino_cash\" target=\"_blank\">already giddily spending casino money<\/a> before they&#8217;ve booked a dime of revenue<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt certainly impacts my line of thinking in terms of what these licenses are worth.[Foxwoods] needs to package the best deal possible and, right now, they\u2019re third in the list of three.\u201d &#8212; Milford Board of Selectman Chairman William Buckley, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-493\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,7,112,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11441,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions\/11441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}